Peter BeattiePolitician

Peter Douglas Beattie AC (born 18 November 1952) is a former Australian politician who served as the 36th Premier of the Australian state of Queensland for nine years and leader of the Australian Labor Party in that state for eleven and a half years. His sweeping victories in the 2001, 2004 and 2006 state elections confirmed him as one of the most electorally successful politicians in Australia.
His Premiership lasted from 20 June 1998 to 13 September 2007 when he retired electorally undefeated. In his later years he groomed and was then succeeded by his Deputy Anna Bligh who became the first female Premier of Queensland.
Beattie was born in Sydney as the youngest of seven children. He was raised by his grandmother at Atherton, a small town in North Queensland. At school, he met Heather Scott-Halliday, whom he later married. They have three adult children and live in Wilston, a suburb of Brisbane.

Personal details

Family

Spouse

Heather Beattie

(Marriage; January 4th, 1975)

Children

Matthew Beattie

Larissa Beattie

Denis Beattie

Education

1. Queensland University of Technology Colleges/University

- Master of Arts

Queensland University of Technology (QUT) is a major Australian university with a strong focus on applied courses and research. Based in Brisbane, it has about 40,000 students, including 6,000 international students, with over 4,000 staff members, and an annual budget of more than AU million..

2. University of Queensland Colleges/University

1971 - Bachelor of Laws

The University of Queensland (UQ) is a public university located in state of Queensland of Australia. Founded in 1909, it is the oldest and largest university in Queensland and the fifth oldest in Australia. The main campus is located in the suburb of St Lucia, southwest of the Brisbane City Central Business District, with other major campuses in Gatton, Ipswich and Herston with a number of other satellite facilities. The University of Queensland is a member of the Australia's Group of Eight, and the international research-intensive universities network Universitas 21. UQ is colloquially known as a "sandstone university" and is ranked among the top universities in Australia and the top 1 percent in the world.

Organizations founded

1. Queensland Academy for Health Sciences

Date funded

Official web page

Headquarters

102 Edmund Rice Drive, 4215 - Gold Coast, Queensland

Wikiedia article

The Queensland Academies - Health Sciences Campus is a Queensland State Government selective entry high school located in Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. QAHS offers the International Baccalaureate Diploma Program to students in years 11 and 12, and is also open to year 10 students, who study a shortened version of the IB Middle Years Programme.

Political engagements

Australian Labor Party

Geographic scope

Australia

Ideology

Social democracy

Official web page

Wikipedia article

The Australian Labor Party is an Australian political party. The party has been in opposition at federal level since the 2013 election. Bill Shorten has been the party's federal parliamentary leader since 13 October 2013. The party is a federal party with branches in each state and territory. Labor is in government in South Australia and the Australian Capital Territory. The party competes against the Liberal/National Coalition for political office at the federal and state levels. Labor's constitution states: "The Australian Labor Party is a democratic socialist party and has the objective of the democratic socialisation of industry, production, distribution and exchange, to the extent necessary to eliminate exploitation and other anti-social features in these fields". This "socialist objective" was introduced in 1921, but has since been qualified by two further objectives: "maintenance of and support for a competitive non-monopolistic private sector" and "the right to own private property".